Queer Jews

Author : David Shneer,Caryn Aviv
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317795056

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Queer Jews by David Shneer,Caryn Aviv Pdf

Queer Jews describes how queer Jews are changing Jewish American culture, creating communities and making room for themselves, as openly, unapologetically queer and Jewish. Combining political analysis and personal memoir, these essays explore the various ways queer Jews are creating new forms of Jewish communities and institutions, and demanding that Jewish communities become more inclusive.

Author : Daniel Boyarin,Daniel Itzkovitz,Ann Pellegrini
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231508957

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Queer Theory and the Jewish Question by Daniel Boyarin,Daniel Itzkovitz,Ann Pellegrini Pdf

The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much interested in revealing—outing—"queer Jews" as it is in exploring the complex social arrangements and processes through which modern Jewish and homosexual identities emerged as traces of each other during the last two hundred years.

Author : David Shneer,Caryn Aviv
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317795049

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Queer Jews by David Shneer,Caryn Aviv Pdf

Queer Jews describes how queer Jews are changing Jewish American culture, creating communities and making room for themselves, as openly, unapologetically queer and Jewish. Combining political analysis and personal memoir, these essays explore the various ways queer Jews are creating new forms of Jewish communities and institutions, and demanding that Jewish communities become more inclusive.

Author : Adi Saleem
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814350898

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Queer Jews, Queer Muslims by Adi Saleem Pdf

Author : Andreas Kraß,Moshe Sluhovsky,Yuval Yonay
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783839453322

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Queer Jewish Lives Between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine by Andreas Kraß,Moshe Sluhovsky,Yuval Yonay Pdf

When queer Jewish people migrated from Central Europe to the Middle East in the first half of the 20th century, they contributed to the creation of a new queer culture and community in Palestine. This volume offers the first collection of studies on queer Jewish lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine. While the first section of the book presents queer geographies, including Germany, Austria, Poland and Palestine, the second section introduces queer biographies between Europe and Palestine including the sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), the writer Hugo Marcus (1880-1966), and the artist Annie Neumann (1906-1955).

Author : Caryn S. Aviv,David Shneer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814740187

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New Jews by Caryn S. Aviv,David Shneer Pdf

For many contemporary Jews, Israel no longer serves as the Promised Land, the center of the Jewish universe and the place of final destination. In New Jews, Caryn Aviv and David Shneer provocatively argue that there is a new generation of Jews who don't consider themselves to be eternally wandering, forever outsiders within their communities and seeking to one day find their homeland. Instead, these New Jews are at home, whether it be in Buenos Aires, San Francisco or Berlin, and are rooted within communities of their own choosing. Aviv and Shneer argue that Jews have come to the end of their diaspora; wandering no more, today's Jews are settled. In this wide-ranging book, the authors take us around the world, to Moscow, Jerusalem, New York and Los Angeles, among other places, and find vibrant, dynamic Jewish communities where Jewish identity is increasingly flexible and inclusive. New Jews offers a compelling portrait of Jewish life today.

Author : David Shneer,Caryn Aviv
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317263821

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American Queer, Now and Then by David Shneer,Caryn Aviv Pdf

queer [adj]: 1 differing from what is usual or ordinary; odd; singular; strange 2 slightly ill; 3 mentally unbalanced 4 counterfeit; not genuine 5 homosexual: in general usage, still chiefly a slang term of contempt or derision, but lately used by some as a descriptive term without negative connotations --Webster's Dictionary queer [adj]: used to describe a 1 body of theory 2 field of critical inquiry 3 way of proudly identifying a group of people 4 way of seeing the world 5 sense of difference from the norm -- David Shneer and Caryn Aviv, Queer in America, Now and Then Contrasting queer life today and in years past, this landmark book brings together autobiographies, poetry, film studies, maps, documents, laws, and other texts to explore the meaning and practice of the word queer. By this Shneer and Aviv mean: queer as both a form of social violence and a call to political activism; queer as played by Robin Williams and Sharon Stone and as lived by Matthew Shepard and Brandon Teena; queer in the courthouses of Washington D.C. and on the streets of hometown America. Contextualizing these contemporary stories with ones from the past, and understanding them through the analytic tools of feminist social criticism and history, the authors show what it means to be queer in America.

Author : Wilkens, Jan
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783869564920

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“Jewish, Gay and Proud” by Wilkens, Jan Pdf

This publication examines the foundation and institutional integration of the first gay-lesbian synagogue Beth Chayim Chadashim, which was founded in Los Angeles in 1972. As early as June 1974, the synagogue was admitted to the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the umbrella organization of the Reform congregations in the United States. Previously, the potential acceptance of a congregation by and for homosexual Jews triggered an intense and broad debate within Reform Judaism. The work asks how it was possible to successfully establish a gay-lesbian synagogue at a time when homosexual acts were considered unnatural and contrary to tradition by almost the entire Jewish community. The starting point of the argumentation is, in addition to general changes in American synagogues after World War II, the assumption that Los Angeles was the most suitable place for this foundation. Los Angeles has an impressive queer history and the Jewish community was more open, tolerant and innovative here than its counterpart on the East Coast. The Metropolitan Community Church was also founded in the city, and as the largest religious institution for homosexual Christians, it also served as the birthplace of queer synagogues. Reform Judaism was chosen as the place of institutional integration of the community because a relative openness for such an endeavor was only seen here. Responsa written in response to a potential admission of Beth Chayim Chadashim can be used to understand the arguments and positions of rabbis and psychologists regarding homosexuality and communities for homosexual Jews in the early 1970s. Ultimately, the commitment and dedication of the congregation and its heterosexual supporters convinced the decision-makers in Reform Judaism. The decisive impulse to question the situation of homosexual Jews in Judaism came from Los Angeles. With its analysis, the publication contributes to the understanding of Queer Jewish History in general and queer synagogues in particular.

Author : Golan Y. Moskowitz
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781503614093

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Wild Visionary by Golan Y. Moskowitz Pdf

Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak's life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak (1928–2012) was a fierce, romantic, and shockingly funny truth seeker who intervened in modern literature and culture. Raising the stakes of children's books, Sendak painted childhood with the dark realism and wild imagination of his own sensitive "inner child," drawing on the queer and Yiddish sensibilities that shaped his singular voice. Interweaving literary biography and cultural history, Golan Y. Moskowitz follows Sendak from his parents' Brooklyn home to spaces of creative growth and artistic vision—from neighborhood movie palaces to Hell's Kitchen, Greenwich Village, Fire Island, and the Connecticut country home he shared with Eugene Glynn, his partner of more than fifty years. Further, he analyzes Sendak's investment in the figure of the endangered child in symbolic relation to collective touchstones that impacted the artist's perspective—the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the AIDS crisis. Through a deep exploration of Sendak's picture books, interviews, and previously unstudied personal correspondence, Wild Visionary offers a sensitive portrait of the most beloved and enchanting picture-book artist of our time.

Author : Noam Sienna
Publisher : Print-O-Craft Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0990515567

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A Rainbow Thread by Noam Sienna Pdf

For many queer Jews, Jewish tradition seems like a rich tapestry which at best ignores them and at worst rejects them entirely. In reality, queerness and queer Judaism have been a constant subplot of Jewish history, if only we care to look. Spanning almost two millennia and containing translations from more than a dozen languages, Noam Sienna's new book, A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts From the First Century to 1969, collects for the first time more than a hundred sources on the intersection of Jewish and queer identities. Covering poetry, drama, literature, law, midrash, and memoir, this anthology suggests that Jewish texts are not just obstacles to be overcome in the creation of queer Jewish life, but also potential resources waiting to be excavated. Through an unprecedented examination of the histories of gender and sexuality over two millennia of Jewish life around the world, this book inspires and challenges its readers to create a better future through a purposeful reflection on our past.

Author : Daniel Boyarin,Daniel Itzkovitz,Ann Pellegrini
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231113755

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Queer Theory and the Jewish Question by Daniel Boyarin,Daniel Itzkovitz,Ann Pellegrini Pdf

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Author : Helene Meyers
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781978821880

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Movie-Made Jews by Helene Meyers Pdf

Movie-Made Jews focuses on American Jewish cinematic tradition. This tradition includes fiction and documentary films that make Jews through antisemitism, Holocaust indirection, and discontent with assimilation, and through unapologetic assertion of Jewishness, queerness, and alliances across race and religion. While it's a truism that Jews make movies, this book demonstrates how movies make Jews.

Author : Edna Nahshon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004227194

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Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context by Edna Nahshon Pdf

Jewish theater practitioners, playwrights, critics, financiers and audiences have played an enormous role in the development of the European and American theater. Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context, a collection of essays by an international cadre of theater scholars, addresses this subject. Focusing on the role of Jews and Jewishness in the theatrical field it discusses the representation of Jews on the American, European, and South American stage, with a strong emphasis on twentieth century theater and the contemporary theatrical scene.

Author : Aaron J. Hahn Tapper
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520281349

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Judaisms by Aaron J. Hahn Tapper Pdf

"An introductory textbook that examines how Jews are a culture, ethnicity, nation, nationality, race, and religion. With each chapter revolving around a single theme--Narratives, Sinais, Zions, Messiahs, Laws, Mysticisms, Cultures, Movements, Genocides, Powers, Borders, and Futures--this introductory textbook interrogates readers' understanding of the Jewish community. Written for a new mode of teaching--one that recognizes the core role that identity formation plays in our lives--this book weaves together alternative, marginalized voices to illustrate how Jews have always been in the process of reshaping their customs, practices, and beliefs. Judaisms is the first book to assess and summarize Jewish history from the time of the Hebrew Bible through today using multiple perspectives"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jonathan C. Friedman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0739114484

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Rainbow Jews by Jonathan C. Friedman Pdf

Rainbow Jews deals with the intersection of gay and Jewish identity in American and Israeli film and theater, from the 1960s to the present. Its main area of interest is the extent to which Jewish creative voices in the performing arts have constructed multidimensional images of, and a welcoming public space for, the gay, lesbian, and transgendered community as a whole. Through a close reading of the texts of numerous American and Israeli plays and films (some famous, but mostly lesser known), the author evaluates some of the key conventions and tropes that have been employed to construct, critique, and reflect the social reality of the connection between Jewishness and gay identity in the United States and Israel. Secondarily, the author explores ways in which gay-Jewish playwrights and filmmakers have assisted the re-evaluation of sexual norms within Judaism over the past three decades, inspiring and reinforcing measures across the spectrum of belief geared towards integrating Jewish members of the GLBT community into the overall Jewish historical narrative.